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General Motors has decided to abandon its Cruise robotaxi program and shift its focus toward developing advanced driver assistance systems for personal vehicles. This strategic realignment comes as a response to the significant time and financial resources needed to expand the robotaxi business, compounded by the increasingly competitive nature of the autonomous vehicle market. As part of the restructuring, GM plans to merge the technical teams from Cruise LLC and GM to streamline efforts in autonomous and assisted driving technologies.
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Trump’s tariff threats aim to pressure Mexico and Canada into addressing issues related to illegal immigration and the flow of fentanyl into the United States. Trump accused both countries of “facilitating illegal immigration and fentanyl abuse in the U.S.” He also announced plans for an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports, citing China’s failure to prevent chemicals used in fentanyl production from entering the U.S.
The tariffs would have far-reaching effects across various sectors of the U.S. economy, impacting consumers and businesses alike. The automobile industry, which has become heavily integrated with factories and suppliers in Mexico and Canada, is particularly vulnerable. Analysts at Wolfe Research estimate that the tariffs could increase the average price of a car by $3,000.
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NIST is now getting near a new standard for post-quantum cryptography, expected to be published in 2024. While computers could use it to encrypt traffic and be protected from quantum computing, the billions of IoT devices don't have the processing and memory resources to use the new lattice-based crypto.
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Talking at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Simon Segars warned the audience that it would be impossible to get all the Christmas presents in time this year. "And the reason for that is because of this global shortage of semiconductors that you may have read quite a lot about in the news recently.” he said
He continued saying that this crisis, which he consider the worst ever in the semiconductor industry. will continue for some time, at least until the end of 2022.
“About $2 billion a week is going to be spent for the next couple of years to add capacity and build new facilities. And that’s going to add about 50 percent additional capacity over the next five years.”
But this huge investment is not a short term solution, because there is no short-term solution.
“Where are we going to be next Christmas? I expect these supply chain constraints to be a little better, but [they] won’t be completely fixed because this isn’t a short-term problem with a short-term solution"
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Dr. Johannes Springer, Director General for the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), believes that no city is willing to pay for the infrastructure needed just for the benefit of autonomous buses or taxis.
" if you have an airport, it might be different. But we cannot afford the necessary infrastructure, let's say, for monitoring the situation around the vehicle in real-time, whether it's a bus or another vehicle." says in an interview during this week's ITS World Congress in Hamburg.
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In 2017, AT&T announced that they will start shutting down 2G networks to free up the spectrum for LTE and the upcoming 5G radios. Additionally, Verizon Wireless phased out its 2G CDMA network in the US at the end of 2020; Sprint sunsetted its 2G CDMA network in December of 2021; and T-Mobile plans to sunset its 2G network in December of 2022.
While existing devices could continue to operate for the time being on those legacy networks, support will phase out, and carriers are no longer activating new 2G devices. The existing connections are now living on borrowed time.
Like 2G, many carriers are eager to sunset older 3G networks so that they can repurpose that spectrum to support 4G LTE and 5G. New devices need more speed, and 3G tops out around 3 Mbps. Besides being faster, 4G LTE is also more efficient, as it allows more devices to share channels and features massive IoT technologies such as Cat-M and NB-IoT.
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The GSMA and Fira Barcelona announced that next year's MWC Barcelona won't take place at the usual dates (early March). It has been postponed to late June to minimize the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
That has been a shock to Barcelona, as MWC is the most profitable event on the city. The biggest technology show brings over €500 million to the region's economy.
GSMA CEO John Hoffman commented that "MWC is more than just an event. It’s an experience that brings the whole industry together and provides a platform to unlock the power of connectivity so that people, industry, and society thrive.”Link to Original Source
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A former paperboy from Wisconsin passionate about maps led the team in the Air Force responsible of designing the navigation system we use everyday.
From IoT Times:
'At the IEEE honors ceremony today in San Francisco, Bradford Parkinson, a retired Air Force colonel who spent his life between maps and navigation systems, will be awarded the 2018 IEEE Medal of Honor, “For fundamental contributions to and leadership in developing the design and driving the early applications of the Global Positioning System.”'
The current Global Positioning System (GPS) did not exist until 1995, just 22 years ago, and the engineer who led the project for the US Department of Defense (DOD) was Mr. Parkinson.
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Since the UK government has done nothing to make Volkswagen pay for Dieselgate, Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, is asking VW to come with £2.5 million ($3 million) to compensate the city and its residents for the 80,000 diesel cars fitted with cheat devices.
“I want to see a proper commitment from them [VW] to fully compensate the thousands of Londoners who bought VW cars in good faith, but whose diesel engines are now contributing to London’s killer air,”
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The University of Calgary paid C$20,000 ransom this week after an attack on May 28 targeted computers used by staff and faculty members, crippling multiple systems and encrypting data files and email accounts.
After determining that they were unable to recover the data the ransom was paid to “protect the quality and nature of the information we generate at the university.”, said an official in a press release.
The fact that higher education institutions are now being targeted by ransomware is raising serious questions about their ability to protect their data and critical information systems.
Universities had a false sense of security, and their IT systems are not prepared to deal with sophisticated attacks.
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There is no shortage of news about the fight between Apple and the Justice Department to unlock the iPhone of a suspect in the San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist case.
Apple can take a page from the fight BlackBerry had back in 2010 with some governments in the Middle East and Asia. At that time, afraid to lose a lucrative business, RIM cave in and allowed those governments to access its secure BBM messaging service. The rest is history.
If Apple complies with the Justice Department request, according to Craig Federighi, senior VP of software engineering at Apple, it "..would become a weakness that hackers and criminals could use to wreak havoc on the privacy and personal safety of us all."
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AWS started out defining its virtual CPUs as being composed of EC2 compute units, or ECUs, which it defined as an equivalent to a physical Xeon processor.
However, a virtual CPU now looks suspiciously variable... A virtual CPU is whatever Amazon wants to offer in an instance series. The user has no firm measure to go by.
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In a panel on “Privacy in the Smart City” during this month's Smart City World Congress, Dr. Carmela Troncoso, a researcher from Spain, argued that data anonymization itself is almost impossible without using advanced cryptography. Our every transaction leaves a digital marker that can be mined by anyone with the right tools or enough determination.
Most modern cities today are full of sensors and connected devices. Some are considering giving away free WiFi in exchange of personal data. LinkNYC, which was present at the congress as exhibitor, is one such example of this.
The panelists insisted that it is the duty of world leaders to safeguard their citizens’ privacy, just as corporations are answerable to leaks and hacks.
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During an interview in Barcelona last week, at the Smart Cities Congress, London's Deputy Mayor Matthew Pencharz said that he doesn't believe diesel cars belong in cities.
He said, “I don’t believe that for the urban setting, for light vehicles, diesel is the right thing,” He added, “I don’t think it is the right thing if you are an urban driver, stopping-starting in traffic all day, not going very far, not zipping along at 50 mph on the motorway. [I think] diesel is not the right technology.”
He also blamed the European Commission for being too lenient with emission standards and conformity factors. “The conformity factors the Commission [has recently approved] are not as good as we would like, clearly, because we are going to have the same problem again,” he said.
“The VW scandal has focused attention on a problem we hardly knew about, and it has raised to the top the public policy of failure of dieselization across the European Union, and the UK too, combined with the spectacular failure of the Euro engine standards,” he said. “[The scandal] has focused our minds on the fact that we need to accelerate the way out of diesel.”
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An article on Cities of the Future suggests that the "automaker’s emissions scandal could end up being a boon if it pushes governments and the industry to reassess diesel’s impact more honestly and move away from it altogether."
The article also asks the European Union to accelerate the introduction of new emissions standards, currently slated to take effect in September 2018, and to order mandatory recalls for all the vehicles affected, as Germany has.
It points out that "some drivers could refuse to have their cars “fixed.” They fear that the diesel engine will lose gas efficiency and power output, and they are right.
